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New Years resolutions

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Tomonthetrain

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Go on then, what's your new years resolutions?

Mine is to try and get a better job with better pay. Plus to live life to the full more.

What's yours?
 
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I'm going to try and be more creative and improve my writing, photography and film making.

Get a new job

Lose weight to fit something prior to WGT
 

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1280x1024 (am at work ;))

Same at home until Tomorrow or Friday (Parcelforce depending* new monitor has been ordered as the power button has stopped working)

Though thinking, with the HDMI to the TV too I'll have 1920x1080x2

*So glad it isn't coming by Yodel, and Parcelforce will leave it in the Postoffice at the end of the road while I'm at work!
 

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Also another one is to tidy my bedroom and keep it tidy. It's so bad I think it needs a visit from Kim and Aggie off how clean is your house!
 

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I announced mine on another thread but here it is. To get Ivo to love class 323s, I'm sure I'll get help!
Also of course to succeed in my love conquest but hey, let's not get into detail
 

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Until last year I had never seriously considered a New Year's Resolution, and amazingly enough it came through.

Now though, it's time for Part Two: From not complaining about being single, to actually doing something about it. By the end of the year, my aim is to have been on at least three real dates - and my Resolution is to not give up making that aim a reality.

I also seem to recall having said that I would try to progress this before my birthday (Easter Sunday :(), so...
 

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Get a better job

Lose at least a stone

Go on an ALR

Get a girlfriend (either the easiest or most difficult of these four!)

Normally I spend quite a while thinking of new years resolutions, but this year I haven't, possibly because I've been out on NYE for two years in a row!
 

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Get a better job

Snap, as I'm listening to Offspring's Why Don't You Get A Job :lol:

Get a girlfriend (either the easiest or most difficult of these four!)

Snap. And unless you're rather confident, I'd say that's the most difficult of the four! Shedding at least a stone is easy enough to do with encouragement and motivation, and doing an ALR is easy enough but just takes a bit of finding the dosh for. Getting into a relationship, that's a whole new ball game. I've had more luck trying to red pen 221108 and 221111, and for over 9 years I still haven't managed that! :lol:
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As for my own resolutions, in my list on my phone titled Goals for 2013:

1) Move onto better things work wise, even if it's still within Asda
2) Get off the Monster and Rockstar Xdurance, it's far too bad for me (started this one on 25/12/12, had a slip-up on 02/01/13 due to a bad night's sleep but not been back on it since)
3) Move into my own place
4) Spread my wings further into Europe
5) The hardest of all: Get into a good relationship, how I'll do that I have no idea!
6) The obvious one: Lose LOTS of weight!

Starting on number 4 tomorrow with the Brussels bash, but I still want to experience more of Europe. Germany may be on the cards in February...
 

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Neither do I at 1920 x 1080 ;)

3360 x 1080 here ;) (two monitors)

Im going to give blood and become a donor :D

Good on you! You can ask them about donating platelets if you live near a major donor centre too. Unfortunately I've been deferred until June thanks to low iron :(

My resolution is to lose some mass. I've made some progress by eating breakfast and walking to/from work instead of getting the shuttle bus but I need to do more to stop snacking out of boredom. If anyone would like to lose weight the higher you are the less you weigh even if it is a mathematically insignificant amount

Additionally, I'd like to go on holiday abroad if only for a weekend either within the EU or Norway.
 

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3360 x 1080 here ;) (two monitors)

I knew someone was going to come along with two monitors :lol: To be honest I'm surprised it took so long ;)

Additionally, I'd like to go on holiday abroad if only for a weekend either within the EU or Norway.


I can heartily recommend Norway. I went maybe ten years ago and it was fantastic.
 

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I knew someone was going to come along with two monitors :lol: To be honest I'm surprised it took so long ;)




I can heartily recommend Norway. I went maybe ten years ago and it was fantastic.

I have a double monitor (well monitor and HDMI to the TV) - mind you someone in the building across from work has a 6 monitor setup!)

I'd love to do Norway but it's very expensive - Tromso Hotels were about £250 per night for a Scandic (think Travelodge)
 

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3360 x 1080 here ;) (two monitors)

Show off :lol:

If anyone would like to lose weight the higher you are the less you weigh even if it is a mathematically insignificant amount

If you go to Mars, you will weigh a lot less. This is because W=mg.
g on Earth= 9.81ms-2, whereas on the Moon, g=1.6ms-2

I have two AS Physics exams in the next week. Can you tell? :D
 

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To pass my degree with at least a 2.1, I'm aiming for a first, but as I would need to average around 77%, i think that is unlikely (thermodynamics, my one true foe)

Attempt a slight reduction in weight, and little increase in muscle mass

Continue in my attempts to get a girlfriend

Improve my kayaking, and hopefully go on a paddling trip in a foreign country.... or at least wales.

Get some more sleeper mileage, and break my one year dry spell since my last proper trip.

Upgrade from 1440x900, to a nice big IPS screen, hopefully with an uprated computer to power it.
 

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hopefully with an uprated computer to power it.

I've just got a new computer at last. My old one was 6 years old and has been getting progressivly slower during the last 3. It now boots up in a matter of seconds whereas my old one took a good five minutes!

I suppose one goal of mine, now that I have got my new PC, is to edit my HD camcorder footage. My old computer was nearly out of space on its hard drive, and the processor wasn't up to handling the AVCHD format. I have a few videos of steam trains at Retford they need to be edited. It is also likely that I will get a YouTube account and upload them to it. I've also got footage of a few family events to edit, as well as many tapes that my Mum and Dad recorded of me and my sister when we were younger (Who remembers Sports Days and Christmas Concerts?).

Once I get my January exams out the way, my job is to get all of these backed up and edited, and hopefully put onto Blu Rays and DVD's.
 

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I've achieved one of mine,although not by enough yet.That is to spread my wings further into Europe,as I'm currently in Brussels and spent the day on Metro and trams :) Already planning a Euro bash for February and March!
 

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My resolutions are:

1. Pass my A-Levels and get into uni.
2. Get a girlfriend.
3. See more bands live this year. (I'm seeing The Stone Roses in Finsbury Park, so that's a start for sure. :))
4. Make sure this year is just as good as 2012.

I've got another one for you - change your location details to reflect the existence of places like Slough, Luton, and even nearby Great Yarmouth ;)
 
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